Sing-Along: Count Your Blessings

Today I would love to share with you my personal favourite hymn that I grew up singing – it is none other than “Count Your Blessings“.

This hymn was written by Johnson Oatman, Jr., who was born to a devout Christian family. His father was the best singer in town and little Johnson grew up wanting to make musical contributions of his own after being inspired by his father.

As Johnson was not gifted with a good voice like his father, he helped out in his family business for a while and also ministered for Methodist Episcopal churches with the hope that life held greater plans for him.

He finally uncovered his talent in writing hymns at the age of 36 and within 3 years’ time, the world was singing hundreds of his hymns.

Like Johnson, we might still be searching for our purpose in life and are hustling in this world to prove our existence. We might feel down when our life hits a rough patch thinking that ALL is lost.

However, if we start to count our blessings in life – we will start to develop the sentiments of gratitude. This is what I term as having an Abundance Mindset – to focus on the positivity so that God can bless us with more abundance in our life 🙂